Jamaica St Catherine 499 (Dawkins Caymanas)

Claim Details, Associated Individuals and Estates

11th Jan 1836 | 199 Enslaved | £3646 1S 9D

Claim Details

Claim Notes

Not listed in Parliamentary Papers.

T71/852: awarded to John Biddulph and Samuel Pepys Cockerell, counterclaimants as 'surviving trustees of James Dawkins. Original claim made by Sir Wm Henry Cooper, absentee, surviving trustee of James Dawkins.

Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey, The West Indies in 1837 (London, Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1838) p. 185: 'The third Caymanas, Dawkins, is also a fine estate, under the attorneyship of T.J. Bernard. Like Ellis's it is managed almost without the interference of the Stipendiary.' [No reference to ownership].